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Letter from FREDERICK BILLINGS to CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, dated
January 1, 1883.,
Original located at the University of Vermont's Special Collections in the George
Perkins Marsh Collection, filed by date.,
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/fbccm830101 (accessed August 02, 2015)

I have recd your letter of Decr 7--with the photograph inclosed. It is very
fine and I regret that it was somewhat damaged in the transmission. Should you send
the library picture and another copy of this it would be well to send them by
private hand as you suggest. Seeing the cane in the picture and -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- wishing some
souvenir of Mr. Marsh for myself I have thought, perhaps, you would let me have
it--or an inkstand which he used--or the chair in which he sat in his library Am I
too bold?

I think it will be best to have the boxes of books directed to the "University of
Vermont Care of Frederick Billings, -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- 170 Broadway New York City"

We are discussing plans for a fire-proof library Building--

--There is a portrait of Mr. Marsh by Healy which Mrs. Lyndon A Marsh has--I think of asking her to give that to
the Library--

The day is mild and -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- bright - and the New Year opens pleasantly --

Please accept all the good wishes which belong to this gracious and hallowed time.